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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES E. ELLISON, OF'SCIOTOVILLE, OHIO.

IRoNING-BOARD.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 259,118, datedv June 6,1882.

Application filed September 10, 1881. (Model.)

To all whom it may concern:

' Beit known that I, J AMES E. ELLIsoN, acitizen of theUnited States,and a resid ent of Sciotoville, in the county of Scioto and State of Ohio, have invented a new and valuable Improvenient in Ironing-Boards; and I do .hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the construction and operation of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making a part of this specihea-tion, and to the letters and figures of reference marked thereon.

Figure 1 of thedrawings is a represent-ation of a side elevation of my invention. Fig. 2 is a plan view. f Fig. 3 is a bottom view of a portion of the board. t

Thisinvention has relation to combined ironing and pressing boards; and it consists in the novel construction and arrangement of parts, as will be hereinafter fully described, and particularly pointed out in the claim.

Referring by letter to the accompanying drawings, A designates an ironing-board, upon which shirts and other garments may be conveniently ironed. This board A is preferably about sixteen inches wide at the end which is to be connected to the table, window-sill, or other support, and tapers to the point to a width of about twelve inches, and should be about four and a half feet in length, as I find this to be the most convenient size for easy manipulation. A slot, B, is provided at the wider end, and a lateral groove, C, traverses the upper face of the board A, as shown in Fig\1,qnite near this wide end, and is intended to engage the table or other support when the device is in use. Atvthe termination of the slot B, and on the under face of the board A, I secure a transverse strengthening piece, I, which prevents the board A from splitting, and also serves as abase for the attachment of one leaf of a strap-hinge, J, the other leaf of the hinge being secured to the under side of the pressing-board K, which also serves as a brace for the ironing-board A when attached to the table or other-support. The pressingboard K tapers to a rounded point, as shown, and has on the under side, at its larger end, a transverse strip, L, to make the bite or clamping-power of the device more certain .when at.- tached to its support. The upper end of the brace or pressing-board K is beveled, as shown, so that when the device is in use ashan ironing-board .this beveled end will bear on the table. This beveled end has a sad-iron stand, M, on which to rest the sad-iron when not in use.

Attached to the under face of the pressingboard K, near its point, is a spring -brace, N, securedV by a screw, N', passed through an eye in the spring portion of the brace, so that the arm portion P may be bent down or turned out of the way of the garment as the latter is .being slipped upon the ironing-board A. 'The arm I? of the springbrace N extends up to Within an inch or an inch and a half of the spiral spring, S, the foot of which engages either one of a series of steps or depressions in the face of the pressing-board K to support thev ironing-board A under heavy pressure. The shirt is to be slipped upon the point of the ironing-board and then drawn down until the point enters the shoulders and neck of the same. The bosom and a portion of the neck band may then be ironed, and when completed the other portions may be ironed by turning the garment upon the-board in a manner that will readily suggest itself;

When the'device is used as a pressing-board the ironing-board is converted into the brace and the brace N occupies the position the ironing-board formerly did, as shown in the drawings.

The bosom board attachments shown connected' to the ironing-board form no part of the invention claimed in this application; but

the right to make a separate application therefor is hereby expressly/reserved.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-m- In a combined ironing and pressing board,

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hereunto subscribed my name in the presence of two Witnesses.

JAMES E. ELLISON.

Witnesses:

GHAS. I). HEEGE, L. NEILLIE. 

